Primeira Liga match prediction: Little separates Marítimo and Famalicão in quality

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Sun 20.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio dos Barreiros (10932 seats)

The home advantage belongs to Marítimo in this match against Famalicão, but the guests will resist to the bitter end. Here's the Tipsway match preview!

Insights:
  • Famalicão have the most conceded goals (24) away in Primeira Liga

This has all the signs of an appealing match with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!

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Marítimo form and stats

3 victories, 5 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Marítimo have to build on here at Estádio dos Barreiros in the Primeira Liga. Two draws in a row at home now for Marítimo.

Marítimo are confident in defense, having played 222 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Marítimo are returning here after visiting Arouca and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. Alipour (2) and Tagueu scored the goal(s). The gifted forward Alipour bettered all the other footballers in that match and received a match rating of 8.83 out of 10. Alipour scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Estoril.

This is expected to be a close game, with Marítimo perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Marítimo as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Marítimo has won seven of these, drawn five and lost three.

Marítimo are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 10 games. Marítimo are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio dos Barreiros in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 10 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Famalicão form and stats

There's been little loot from Famalicão's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 11 away games in the Primeira Liga. Famalicão only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 3 draws. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Famalicão are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Famalicão won their last game, 5-0 versus Moreirense played at home. Attacker Teixeira got a player rating of 8.61 in the game. "Man of the match" Teixeira scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 23 successful passes (of 27 total).

A 0-2 defeat away at Sporting CP before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Famalicão in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Famalicão, three draws and two defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Famalicão's attacking play in away games, having scored 17 goals in 11 league matches away. Famalicão have conceded 24 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Famalicão - Marítimo 0-0 was the product when these teams formerly did battle, some time ago this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's zero Marítimo victories, four draws and two Famalicão wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less. The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 4 red cards from the last six duels.

Top Goalscorers

FamalicãoS. Banza
S. Banza
9 goals
MarítimoA. Alipour
A. Alipour
6 goals
MarítimoD. Tagueu Tadjo
D. Tagueu Tadjo
5 goals

Marítimo missing players

Famalicão missing players

Marítimo Famalicão
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 10 4 Played P 3 11 22
7 3 1 Won W 2 2 4
7 5 3 Drew D 1 3 8
8 2 0 Lost L 0 6 10
28 13 5 Scored S 9 17 28
30 9 3 Conceded C 4 24 37
86% 80% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
77% 80% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 82%
50% 30% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 73% 59%
18% 20% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 64% 41%
14% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 18% 18%
59% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 64% 55%
32% 40% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 9% 27%
23% 30% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 27% 32%
 
4 4.6 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.5 4.2
4.8 4.2 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 5.2 4.6
3.5 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 3.5 3
6 2 2 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
11.1 12.8 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 11.7 10.7 11.7
3.7 3.7 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.7 4.7 4.5
35% 35% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 33% 28%
 
14.3 12.8 16.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 14.7 11.7
4.7 4.1 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 5.6 4.5
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • All of Famalicão's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Famalicão have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Famalicão have the most conceded goals (24) away in Primeira Liga
  • Famalicão haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Porto 22 19 3 0 57 16 11 10 1 0 29 8 11 9 2 0 28 8 41 60
2 Sporting CP 22 17 3 2 43 15 11 9 1 1 19 5 11 8 2 1 24 10 28 54
3 Benfica 22 16 2 4 58 20 11 7 1 3 27 12 11 9 1 1 31 8 38 50
4 Sporting Braga 22 12 5 5 39 23 12 7 3 2 22 10 10 5 2 3 17 13 16 41
5 Gil Vicente 22 10 7 5 33 24 11 4 3 4 17 15 11 6 4 1 16 9 9 37
6 Vitoria Guimaraes 22 8 6 8 32 27 10 6 2 2 20 11 12 2 4 6 12 16 5 30
7 Estoril 22 7 9 6 26 24 11 2 6 3 13 14 11 5 3 3 13 10 2 30
8 Marítimo 22 7 7 8 28 30 10 3 5 2 13 9 12 4 2 6 15 21 -2 28
9 Portimonense 22 7 6 9 22 24 12 2 4 6 9 15 10 5 2 3 13 9 -2 27
10 Santa Clara 22 6 6 10 26 41 11 5 3 3 14 19 11 1 3 7 12 22 -15 24
11 Vizela 22 5 8 9 24 37 12 3 4 5 11 16 10 2 4 4 13 21 -13 23
12 Boavista 22 3 12 7 25 34 11 3 7 1 15 12 11 0 5 6 10 22 -9 21
13 Pacos de Ferreira 22 4 9 9 16 26 11 2 5 4 10 13 11 2 4 5 6 13 -10 21
14 Famalicão 22 4 8 10 28 37 11 2 5 4 11 13 11 2 3 6 17 24 -9 20
15 Tondela 22 6 2 14 29 44 11 4 0 7 17 23 11 2 2 7 12 21 -15 20
16 Moreirense 22 4 7 11 22 37 10 3 3 4 15 15 12 1 4 7 7 22 -15 19
17 Arouca 22 4 6 12 19 41 11 3 1 7 10 25 11 1 5 5 9 16 -22 18
18 Belenenses 22 3 6 13 14 41 11 3 2 6 10 24 11 0 4 7 4 17 -27 15

Read more about Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.